Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congrs dified gay nuptials, Iowa legislators proposed banng such unns their state nstutn.
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ON THIS DAY 10 YEARS AGO, AN IOWA SUPREME COURT LG LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE THE STATE
Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congrs dified gay nuptials, Iowa legislators proposed banng such unns their state nstutn. The Iowa Supreme Court on April 3, 2009, unanimoly overturned a 10-year-old outright ban on gay marriage the state and allowed same-sex upl to marry. Brien ma Iowa the third state the natn to tablish marriage lg tapulted the state to a growg nversatn around marriage equaly and rights for LGBTQ people that would not see a feral rolutn until the Supreme Court stck down gay marriage bans across the natn 2015.
Iowans' llective views on legalizg gay marriage have steadily changed over the years, wh 46% of Iowa Poll rponnts ambivalent on the issue 1996 to 62% rpondg that marriage should only be between same-sex upl Febary 2014, 34% of rponnts to the Iowa Poll claimed to be disappoted that Iowa allowed same-sex marriage while 28% were proud of the cisn and 36% said didn't matter much to them. Joni Ernst fends gay-marriage vote as GOP unty groups move to censure herHoe File 508, which is also sponsored by eight Republins, would say that Iowa regniz marriage as "a sacred relig sacrament" and no Iowan shall be pelled to regnize any same-sex marriage as would state that Iowa nsirs portns of the feral Rpect for Marriage Act to be null and void for vlatg the First Amendment's relig protectns and the Tenth Amendment by encroachg on the state's powers.